Conor Levingston is convinced Ireland have the measure of England as they strive to keep their UEFA Under-17 Championship adventure alive in Bulgaria this evening.

It’s a do-or-die scenario for Tom Mohan’s youngsters at the Beroe Stadium in Stara Zagora as they simply must win or they are out. A draw is all England need to make the quarter-finals.

But a two-goal victory or better over the current Group D leaders would put Ireland through.

A one-goal victory, coupled with a winner from the other group game between Holland and Italy in Bourgas, would also see Ireland through and put England out.

“Obviously it was disappointing to lose to Italy,” said Gorey lad Levingston of Sunday’s 2-0 defeat which sees Ireland bottom of the group.

“We simply have to pick ourselves up and it’s on to meet England. When we heard on the bus on the way back that we were still in with a good chance if we beat England, then everyone got a lift from that. We’re back in it.”

Mohan is without winger Trevor Clarke whose tournament ended against Italy with an injury to his right foot.

“Regardless of what we have to do, everybody is going to be up for playing England,” said the Ireland boss. “It’s the last game in the group stage and we know what we’ve got to do.

“The boys have bounced back well from the Italy defeat and there is a good buzz back in the camp.

“They performed well on Sunday. It was just the few errors we made and not being clinical ourselves.

“I can’t be hard on them. All you can ask of them is to go out and perform and work hard and show a bit of character. They did all those things.”